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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
  3 days ago

• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  5 days ago

• The Electronic Signature Fail: How privacy is only a monetary issue

  
  Intellect or Insanity — Authority: 482
  The Government’s wish to issue self-signed electronic signatures on the newly inaugurated biometric cards is more of a monetary mishap than a privacy Issue. However, some critics may say that this is more than a failure, it’s a way of doing business . In 2001, Israel legislated an Electronic Signature Act , ...
  5 days ago

• DOJ Blames Six-Year Trial Delay on Detainee, Cites National Security

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  Late on Friday, the Department of Justice quietly filed an unclassified, heavily redacted version (see below) of its argument why a New York federal court should not dismiss the case of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani , an accused conspirator in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Ghailani’s ...
  6 days ago

• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
  1 week ago

• Salon Radio: Critical state secrets hearing today (Dec 15th)

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 440
  Salon Radio: Critical state secrets hearing today : Via Salon: Glenn Greenwald . (updated below w/transcript - Update II) [link to recorder fixed] The case of Mohamed v. Jeppesen -- brought by five victims of Bushs torture/rendition program against the Boeing subsidiary that shipped them to be ...
  1 week ago

• Lawsuit Challenging Unconstitutional Spying Should Be Reinstated, Says ACLU

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 440
  Lawsuit Challenging Unconstitutional Spying Should Be Reinstated, Says ACLU : Via American Civil Liberties Union . FISA Amendments Act Must Be Subject To Judicial Review FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union filed a brief late Wednesday ...
  1 week ago

• State Secrets Strikes Again

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  The government’s “state secrets” argument was back in full force yesterday , this time being made by the Justice Department before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in the ongoing case against Jeppesen Dataplan, a Boeing subsidiary. Jeppesen is accused by five alleged victims of the Bush ...
  1 week ago

• Torture Roulette - by Dahlia Lithwick

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 462
  For close to a year now, the Obama administration has been playing judicial Whac-a-Mole over accountability for Bush administration torture policies. Each time an opportunity arises to assess the legality of Bush-era torture, the Obama administration shuts it down. When another case pops up, the administration slaps ...
  1 week ago

• Salon Radio: Critical state secrets hearing - Glenn Greenwald

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 462
  The Obama administration now insists that courts must dismiss lawsuits alleging presidential lawbreaking whenever the CIA Director claims the lawsuit would jeopardize state secrets; or, as the ACLU Brief puts it, "torture victims must be denied a day in court based on an Affidavit submitted by their torturers." The ...
  1 week ago

• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
  1 week ago

• Very Disappointing

  
  Blog of Mass Destruction — Authority: 123
  What if The Reverend, at the end of 2009, were to start defending the George W. Bush presidency? That would be quite a turnabout, wouldnt it? Pigs will fly, of course, before I would even consider doing anything so irresponsible. However, for President Barack Obama….defending the George W. Bush presidency is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sotomayor Issues First Ruling of Term in Quasi-’State Secrets’ Case

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 741
  Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the high court’s newest addition, was given the honor of issuing the first ruling of the Supreme Court’s term yesterday. On its face,  the case — about the right to appeal a judge’s order to disclose confidential attorney-client communications — doesn’t look very controversial, ...
  2 weeks ago

• EFF Submits Brief in Key State Secrets Privilege Case

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 149
  Cindy Cohn writes: EFF filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit’s en banc review of Mohamed v. Jeppesen , a case brought by the ACLU challenging the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program. A panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had rejected the government’s argument that the case had to be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Report: U.S. Fears Public Scrutiny Would Scuttle IP Treaty Talks — Update

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 440
  Report: U.S. Fears Public Scrutiny Would Scuttle IP Treaty Talks — Update : Via Threat Level . The proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, has been shrouded in secrecy, and the Bush and the Obama administrations have declared it unsuitable for public debate because divulging its contents could harm ...
  2 weeks ago

• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  3 weeks ago

• Barack W. Obama

  
  Blog of Mass Destruction — Authority: 123
  In his scheduled speech tonight at West Point, President Obama will make one of the biggest mistakes of his short presidency. Obama has accepted General McChrystals recommendations on Afghanistan in their entirety. Those recommendations are unrealistic and have more to do with military testosterone, ego, and the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bagram Interviews, ACLU Letter on Child Prisoners, Obama Seals Up Secrets

  
  Invictus — Authority: 463
  Yesterday [11/28], my [Daily Kos] diary on the Washington Post and New York Times articles regarding the existence of torture at a black-site, Special Operations-run prison at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, sparked a lot of comments. These spanned the spectrum from incredulity at the torture reports to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Supreme Court Throws Out Order to Disclose Abuse Photos

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  The Supreme Court today threw out a ruling of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that had ordered the government to disclose photographs of detainees being abused by U.S. officials. The ruling was widely expected, given that Congress had recently changed the Freedom of Information Act to exempt disclosure of these ...
  3 weeks ago

• Charges of Abuse at Bagram Highlight Ongoing Problem With ‘Obama’s Gitmo’

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  This weekend’s news that inmates at the part of the prison at the U.S. Air Base in Bagram, Afghanistan, run by Special Operations forces had suffered abuse sounded eerily reminiscent of the charges we’ve heard from previous prisoners victimized by interrogators at Guantanamo Bay. Joshua Partlow and Julie Tate at ...
  3 weeks ago

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